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LONDON, Jun 11-- Geoff Ho, the ethnic Chinese journalist who protected friends and got hurt in the London Bridge attack, gave his first chilling account Sunday of the moment he came face to face with three terrorists on a mission of death. Writing in the Sunday Express where he is the business editor, Ho started his account of the horror evening just eight days ago: "I close my eyes and I can still see and hear, crystal clear, everything from that night. I can actually still taste it in my mouth. The fear. The adrenaline coursing through my body, propelling my legs forward." He spent the night in his favorite bar in the Borough Market area, before he headed away and spotted two men seemingly attacking a doorman at another of his other drinking haunts, the Southwark Tavern. "I jumped straight in. A two on one attack? Not on my watch," wrote Ho. His intervention worked, police arrived quickly and took the attackers away. He shook hands with the doormen and continued with his journey home. He then made what he described as a fateful decision, heading away from the nearby tube station, instead intending to celebrate his good deed in a nearby steakhouse with food and a glass of beer. "Suddenly one of the staff locked the door. Then I saw them. The three terrorists were outside," he said. "Years of martial arts training means that my mind can focus, so that when trouble really starts, I can remain calm. Calm is good." Ho thought the three men were accomplices of the two he had challenged minutes earlier, seeking revenge for them being arrested. | 
